SACRAMENTO, Calif. – Five people are dead , including the gunman, after a mass shooting at a church in Sacramento on Monday, police said.
The suspect gunned down three kids and one adult about 5 p.m. at an Arden-Arcade neighborhood church in California’s capitol city before turning the gun on himself, Fox News reported.
Each person who was shot was pronounced dead at the scene. Their identities have not been released. Authorities believe the mass murder-suicide was domestic violence-related.
The three murdered children were all girls, ages 9, 10 and 13, according to Sgt. Rodney Grassmann, a spokesman for the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office, Fox 2 of Sacramento reported.
A church employee heard the gunshots and called 911. The shooting occurred in the main sanctuary area, Grassmann said.
The sheriff’s office said the shooter was the 39-year-old father to the children. He had a restraining order against him and the incident occurred during a supervised visit with his children at the house of worship, where they would often meet, Fox reported.
The adult killed in the rampage was supervising the visit between the father and his children, according to Sheriff Scott Jones. It is unknown if that was a social worker or church representative.
